Posted on 01/29/2016 5:54:20 AM PST by Kaslin
"As far as single payer, it works in Canada, it works incredibly well in Scotland." "I would press for universal healthcare. ... I would put forward a comprehensive health care program and fund it with an increase in corporate taxes." "We must have universal healthcare."
"I hate the concept of it, but on a humanitarian basis, you have to [take in Syrian refugees]"
"I support the ban on assault weapons and I also support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun." "I hate the concept of guns." "The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions." "I probably identify more as a Democrat."
"Everybody's got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing to say. I'm going to take care of everybody.... The government is going to pay for it." "I believe the Republicans are just too crazy right."
"I've very impressed by [Nancy Pelosi]. I like her a lot." "Hillary is a great friend of mine. Her husband is a great friend of mine."
"I'm a liberal on healthcare." "As far as single payer, it works incredibly well in Canada." "I am pro-choice in every respect."
Those are Donald Trump's words over the last number of years. Trump's position supporting a socialist healthcare scheme is about the only consistent position he has maintained.
In 2010, Donald Trump funded Democrat efforts to stop Republicans from taking back Congress. In 2014, he switched teams and supported the Republican Establishment against conservatives. Now he has tilted all the way to the right to support the anti-establishment conservatives he so recently hated as "crazy right."
Conservatives, particularly evangelicals, have lost their ability to discern wolves in sheep's clothing. Donald Trump calls himself a Christian, but has never asked God for forgiveness and sees no need to repent. Point that out to many an evangelical Christian and they will be quick to accuse you of judging Donald Trump. And if you point out that 1 Corinthians 5 makes clear that Christians are to judge anyone who calls himself a Christian, Trump defenders will proclaim they are not electing a pastor. Paul wrote, "[do not] associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler". The Bible also implores the faithful to seek out godly men for their leaders.
Pastors in the United States -- including Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, an evangelical megachurch -- have hitched their wagons to Trump. Jeffress and other evangelical ministers seem convinced that the flawed vessel of Donald Trump can make America great again when they, as pastors, are supposed to be saving souls, not nations. Jeffress and his cohorts are seeking earthly powers to fight spiritual battles.
That men who spend their time wrapped in scripture and preaching in pulpits are quick to embrace a man who is on his third wife gets me thinking. This man is on his third wife -- after having cheated on his first wife with his second -- and says he has never asked God for forgiveness, cannot name a favorite book of the Bible and has no favorite passage of scripture. This suggests to me that many Christian preachers in this country have unsure moorings and let their homesickness for this country as they think they once knew it supersede their homesickness for the land to which they have not yet been, but to which they supposedly long.
As Screwtape wrote to Wormwood, "we want a man hag-ridden by the Future -- haunted by visions of an imminent heaven or hell upon earth -- ready to break the Enemy's commands in the present if by so doing we make him think he can attain the one or avert the other -- dependent for his faith on the success or failure of schemes whose end he will not live to see. We want a whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present." Many a pastor and Christian for Trump seems hag-ridden by the Future and ready to pursue a rainbow.
If past is prelude to the future, and since I assume you may have paid attention to my comments over the years, you are most likely correct in your surmise.
See you after Super Tuesday then.
Get the language back.
No ‘illegal immigrants’; but BORDER INVADERS.
No ‘transgendered’; but MENTALLY ILL.
No ‘government money’; but OUR TAXES.
The only thing worse than cheating on your wife is telling her about when it is over just to relieve your conscious. Take that one with you to your grave.
Why?
I am paying my way thru my insurance company.
You know what? I can’t take exception with a single thing you said. We are both clearly pissed about the very same things.
Cheers!
Cheers.
” I found out; when I turned 65; that I; too; was on Medicare. Why?”
In my case My HP retirement insurance would only cover me if I signed up for medicare. They do that because medicare becomes primary and it saves them a lot of money.
BTW, I believe the way it works is that if a person doesn’t sign up for medicare when you turn 65 and are on SS, you can’t get it later if you need it.
>>>I’d like some dates, places and context.
Re:
“Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing to say. I’m going to take care of everybody.... The government is going to pay for it.”
Last September, interview on 60 Minutes:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-60-minutes-scott-pelley/
Yes there are always backups if people are prodded to provide them. I was against the method, not the reason. Hang me.
You as a Trump man must be an expert on liars. He lies all the time, and you are his big fan. Explain that one.
That’s true. They’re like the guy who things the whore they’re fond of (Trump) would be a great person to run the whorehouse since she knows all the tricks. Never mind the whore Trump has his own real agenda. And he, as an inveterate liar, is able to fool them as if they were born yesterday.
Good one. They’d have us believe Trump has merely been Churchill crossing the aisle in his 20’s to help the working man. Weird.
Trump’s stances on single-payer, abortion and the Kelo decision are well-documented, as is his position on “assault weapons.” His position in 2000 was that the GOP was in lockstep with NRA. The fact the “assault weapons” ban was law at the time is immaterial, as the point is he was agreeing with it.
People can try as they might to attribute those positions to “years ago,” or “making nice for business’ sake,” but the fact he’s vocally carried those stances is what should give voters pause.
“no replies”
Oh? Silly? Well I certainly don’t think it is
Oh much to tell you! Much much much. In a word… GREAT !! i’ll message you privately
OK, LOL, I was trying to get away with abbreviating but you’re not gonna let me are you?! Ha ha. I can understand eminent domain under certain narrow circumstances. However when it’s for the good of entrepreneurs and business men? No they should not be able to take my possessions, my property!! that
“His position in 2000 was that the GOP was in lockstep with NRA. The fact the “assault weapons†ban was law at the time is immaterial, as the point is he was agreeing with it.
People can try as they might to attribute those positions to “years ago,†or “making nice for business’ sake,†but the fact he’s vocally carried those stances is what should give voters pause.”
You are really streching, with very little substance. He made the comment 15 years ago, which certainly is “years ago”. It is relevant that he only supported what was already law. The Republican candidate at the time, George Bush, went further, saying that he would sign a renewal of the “Assualt Weapon Ban” if it came to his desk. Trump did not support more infringements on the Second Amendment.
In the present, and for several years previous, he has been a staunch Second Amendment supporter, and there are good reasons for his education on this issue.
It’s because they are desperate for change. In a very real way, Obama set them up for this.
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